Regarding 2.7: if folks want this fixed on RHEL/CentOS, then they need to talk to Red Hat about it, not the upstream CPython devs. I used to work there, and was told multiple times by Red Hat executives that none of their customers actually used Python, so the Python ecosystem wasn't of any strategic interest to them, and hence zero funding was available for full-time upstream CPython maintenance econtributions.

As such, I no longer consider it acceptable for anyone to ask community volunteers to compensate for Red Hat's abject negligence and executive incompetence.